The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

modes and meanings

Two dogs head towards the person holding chopped liver, with a dramatic sunset.

And many controversies have arisen simply from this, namely that men do not correctly explain their own meaning, or that they interpret incorrectly the meaning of another [person]. For in fact, when they most contradict each other, they either understand the same thing under different words, or a different thing under the same words so that those ideas which they suppose to be mistakes and absurdities in others, do not exist.

—Spinoza (Ethics, Part II, Scholium to Prop. 47, trans. George Eliot)


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